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Lesson 12.6: Individual Rooms or Room Categories in Minoan Palatial Architecture

Lesson 12 Bibliography: Minoan Architecture: The Palaces

S. Alexiou, “Peri minoïkon dexamenon katharmou,” Kretika Chronika 24(1972) 414-434.

S. Alexiou, “Sulla funzione di alcuni ambienti nei palazzi minoici,” in Antichità Cretesi. Studi in onore di Doro Levi I (Catania 1973) 60-63.

M. Andreadaki-Vlazaki, “Ypogeio adyto e ‘dexamene katharmon’ sta Chania,” AAA 21(1988) 56-76.

D. J. I. Begg, Minoan Storerooms in the Late Bronze Age (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Toronto 1975).

K. Branigan, “The Early Keep, Knossos: A Reappraisal,” BSA 87(1992) 153-163.

F. M. Carinci, “Il complesso sotto il Vano 70/Vano XLIV-38: un corrispondente della ‘Sala del Trono’ cnossia a Festòs? Studio preliminare,” in M. Bettelli, M. Del Freo, and G. J. van Wijngaarden (eds.), Mediterranean Itinera: Studies in Honour of Lucia Vagnetti [Incunabula Graeca 106] (Rome 2018) 147-164.

N. Cucuzza, “Minoan ‘Theatral Areas’,” in M. Andreadaki-Vlazaki and E. Papadopoulou (eds.), Pepragmena tou Ι Kretologikou Synedriou (Chania 2011) A2: 155-170.

J. Driessen, “The Minoan Hall in Domestic Architecture on Crete: To Be in Vogue in Late Minoan IA?,” Acta Archaeologica Lovanensia 21(1982) 27-92.

J. Driessen, “The Central Court of the Palace at Knossos,” in G. Cadogan, E. Hatzaki, and A. Vasilakis (eds.), Knossos: Palace, City, State [BSA Studies 12] (London 2004) 75-82.

G.-P. Georgakopoulos, “The Kitchen of the Palace and the Cooking Areas of the Houses in a Minoan Neopalatial Town. The Example of Kato Zakros,” in K. Zebrowska, A. Ulanowska, and K. Lewartowski (eds.), Sympozjum Egejskie: Papers in Aegean Archaeology 2 (Warsaw 2019) 57-68.

L. Goodison, “From Tholos Tomb to Throne Room: Perceptions of the Sun in Minoan Ritual,” in R. Laffineur and R. Hägg, POTNIA. Deities and Religion in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 22] (Liège/Austin 2001) 77-88.

J. W. Graham, “The Phaistos Piano Nobile,” AJA 60(1956) 151-157.

J. W. Graham, “The Central Court as the Minoan Bull-Ring,” AJA 61(1957) 255-262.

J. W. Graham, “The Residential Quarter of the Minoan Palace,” AJA 63(1959) 47-52.

J. W. Graham, “Windows, Recesses, and the Piano Nobile in the Minoan Palaces,” AJA 64(1960) 329-333.

J. W. Graham, “The Minoan Banquet Hall,” AJA 65(1961) 165-172.

J. W. Graham, “A New Arena at Mallia,” in Antichità Cretesi. Studi in onore di Doro Levi I (Catania 1973) 65-73.

J. W. Graham, “The Banquet Hall of the Little Palace,” AJA 79(1975) 141-144.

J. W. Graham, “Bathrooms and Lustral Chambers,” in K. Kinzl (ed.), Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean in Ancient History and Prehistory (Berlin 1977) 110-125.

J. W. Graham, “Further Notes on Minoan Palace Architecture: 1. West Magazine and Upper Halls at Knossos and Malia; 2. Access to, and Use of, Minoan Palace Roofs,” AJA 83(1979) 49-69.

R. Hägg, “The ‘East Hall’: A Forgotten Cult Room in the Palace of Knossos,” Pepragmena tou Z' Diethnous Kretologikou Synedriou (Rethymno 1995) 359-367.

R. Hägg and N. Marinatos, “On the Ceremonial Function of the Minoan Polythyron,” OpAth 16(1986) 57-73.

E. Hallager, “A Harvest Festival Room in the Minoan Palaces? An Architectural Study of the Pillar Crypt Area at Knossos,” in R. Hägg and N. Marinatos (eds.), The Function of the Minoan Palaces (Stockholm 1987) 169-187.

B. Hayden, “The Derivation and Architectural Context of Cretan Bronze Age Stoas,” Archaeological News 11(1982) 1-7.

L. Hitchcock, “The Minoan Hall System: Writing the Present Out of the Past,” in M. Locock (ed.), Meaningful Architecture: Social Interpretations of Buildings (Aldershot 1994) 14-43.

L. Hitchcock, “The Best Laid Plans Go Astray: Modular (Ir)regularities in the ‘Residential Quarters’ at Phaistos,” in R. Laffineur and P. P. Betancourt (eds.), TEXNH: Craftsmen, Craftswomen and Craftsmanship in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 16] (Liège/Austin 1997) 243-250.

L. Hitchcock, Fabricating Signification: An Analysis of the Spatial Relationships between Room Types in Minoan Monumental Architecture (Ph.D. dissertation, University of California at Los Angeles 1998).

C. Kopaka, “Des pièces de repos dans l'habitat minoen du IIe millénaire avant J.-C.?,” in P. Darcque and R. Treuil (eds.), L'habitat égéen préhistorique [BCH Supplement 19] (Paris 1990) 217-230.

J. F. Lloyd, “The Minoan Hall System and the Problem of an Entrance to the South House at Knossos,” OpAth 22-23(1997-1998) 117-140.

J. F. Lloyd, “The Three-dimensional Form of the Light Area of the Minoan Hall System and the Southeast Corner of the South House at Knossos,” OpAth 24(1999) 51-77.

N. Marinatos and R. Hägg, “On the Ceremonial Function of the Minoan Polythyron,” OpAth 16(1986) 57-73.

S. Mirié, Das Thronraumareal des Palastes von Knossos: Versuch einer Neuinterpretation seiner Entstehung und seiner Funktion [Saarbrücker Beiträge zur Altertumskunde 26] (Bonn 1979).

W.-D. Niemeier, “Zur Deutung des Thronraumes in Palast von Knossos,” AM 101(1986) 63-95.

W.-D. Niemeier, “On the Function of the ‘Throne Room’ in the Palace at Knossos,” in R. Hägg and N. Marinatos (eds.), The Function of the Minoan Palaces (Stockholm 1987) 163-168.

C. Palyvou, “Central Courts: The Supremacy of the Void,” in J. Driessen, I. Schoep, and R. Laffineur (eds.), Monuments of Minos: Rethinking the Minoan Palaces [Aegaeum 23] (Liège/Austin 2002) 167-177.

M. Panagiotaki, The Central Palace Sanctuary at Knossos [BSA Supplement 31] (London 1999).

C. Papadaki, “Dexamenes katharmon kai apothetes: morphologikoi kai leitourgikoi (?) parallelismoi,” Creta Antica 17(2016) 73-96.

O. Pelon, “La salle à piliers du Palais de Malia et ses antécédents: recherches complémentaires,” BCH 117(1993) 523-546.

A. Pilali-Papasteriou, “Anaktorika iera tes minoïkes Kretes,” AMETOS. Timetikos tomos gia ton kathegeten Manole Androniko II (Thessaloniki 1987) 665-680.

L. Platon, “Ateliers palatiaux minoens: une nouvelle image,” BCH 117(1993) 103-122.

N. Platon, “Bathrooms and Lustral Basins,” in Europa: Festschrift für Ernst Grumach (Berlin 1967) 236-245.

M. Platonos, “Nees endeixeis yia to problema ton katharterion dexamenon kai ton loutron sto minoïko kosmo,” in Pepragmena tou ΣΤ' Diethnous Kretologikou Synedriou (Chania 1990) A2: 141-155.

A. Schott, “Minoische und mykenische Palasthöfe,” Österreichisches Jahresheft 45(1960) 68-80.

E. Shank, “Decorated Dining Halls,” in L. A. Hitchcock, R. Laffineur, and J. Crowley (eds.), DAIS: The Aegean Feast [Aegaeum 29] (Liège/Austin 2008) 97-103.

J. W. Shaw, “A ‘Palatia’ Stoa at Kommos,” in R. Hägg and N. Marinatos (eds.), The Function of the Minoan Palaces (Stockholm 1987) 101-109.

J. W. Shaw, “Tracing the Ancestry of the Minoan Hall System,” BSA 106(2011) 141-165.

J. W. Shaw and A. Lowe, “The ‘Lost’ Portico at Knossos: The Central Court Revisited,” AJA 106(2002) 513-523.

H. Van Effenterre, “Arène ou Agora?,” in Antichità Cretesi. Studi in onore di Doro Levi I (Catania 1973) 74-78.

K. Vansteenhuyse, “Minoan Courts and Ritual Competition,” in J. Driessen, I. Schoep, and R. Laffineur (eds.), Monuments of Minos: Rethinking the Minoan Palaces [Aegaeum 23] (Liège/Austin 2002) 235-248.


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